Another hypochondriac explained it to me years ago. He was a good guy. The nicest in the whole psychiatric ward. And then there are the doctor’s questions — the ones they fire off routinely, hastily, ...

For more than a century, everyday painkillers have been handed over pharmacy counters to ease headaches, joint aches and fevers. Now a wave of research is revealing that some of these familiar tablets ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

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Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disease that affects an increasing number of children and adults. The skin is dry and ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body.

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

An international team of researchers found that iron limitation, through its effects on growth and trace metal usage of the microalgae that live within coral cells, could exacerbate the effects of ...